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  Extending services over the last mile: bridging the gap between intermediate and local levels

  Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2006

  This paper critically explores the service delivery to the grassroots level developing countries. It points out that there is seems to be a lot of difficulty in ensuring that services and other development initiatives actually reach people at the grassroots these countries.
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  Can decentralisation make local administration more accountable?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  There is little evidence that decentralisation promotes poverty reduction. Often it simply empowers local elites to capture public resources. India is committed to decentralisation and provides an important case for understanding how governments need to be pro-active if this has to make local governance more accountable.
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  Creating spaces for change: women’s empowerment and the case of panchayati raj in India

  United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2006

  This research paper examines the theory of women’s empowerment, and explores the challenges faced by practitioners and policy makers in implementing this theory. Using the case study of women in panchayati raj (Indian village councils), the author analysis the concept of empowerment through the lens of boundaries and spaces.
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  District Development Indicators: ’think globally act locally’

  Eldis Document Store, 2004

  The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the growing emphasis on results-focused development strategies have in turn increased the demand for timely, reliable, and relevant data.
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  Indian experience of women’s quota in local government: implications for future strategies

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2005

  This paper examines the implementation of reservations and quotas for women in Indian politics.
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  Governance in the gullies: democratic responsiveness and leadership in Delhi’s slums

  Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2005

  This study uses qualitative and quantitative analysis to examine the strategies developed by the urban poor in Delhi to access government services.
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  Political corruption in India's below the poverty line exercise: grassroots perspectives on BPL in perpetuating poverty and social exclusion

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  The proportion of the Indian population estimated to be below the poverty line (BPL) is a mere 25%, according to official statistics. This reflects well on the governments efforts at poverty reduction.
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  NGOs, gender mainstreaming and urban poor communities in Mumbai

  Oxfam, 2005

  This article argues that NGOs working at the community level can play an important role in supporting women to challenge customs and beliefs which perpetuate unequal gender relations.
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  Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

  Oxfam, 2003

  This report argues that if development organisations are to help advance women's rights and full citizenship then they must abandon explanations on the basis of "culture" that ignore gender-based discrimination, and overcome their anxieties about appearing neo-colonial.
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  Of broken social contracts and ethnic violence: the case of Kashmir

  Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2005

  This paper examines the conflict in Kashmir, arguing that the main reason for political discontent and resort to violence has to do with repeated infringement of the social contract by the central government of India, acting often in tandem with the state government. It first considers the theoretical debates concerning nationalism and ethnicity.

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